The Columbus journal., 1887-09-28
DYSPEPSIA'S GRIP.

DYSPEPSIA'S GRIP.
THE HOLD THE DISEASE HAS UPON
THE AVERAGE NEW YORKER.
A Physician Says Hasty Lunches srs the
Root Of the Evil.What tho Hungry
Gothamite Throws Iato His Stonsch.
An Attack Of Lunch House.
"Most people have an idea that tho reason
Why thero is 50 much dyspepsia in New York
b because there Is something the matter with
the air in the city or the Crotou water. or tho
climate or something like that" said an ex-
perienced physician who was approached BY
O reporter on the subject. "There may be
something in all that The climate Is pretty
trying for people Of weak constitutions, but
not more 90 Than the climates Of some other
countries where dyspepsia is g little known
as the ancient plagued here. There0l roubl
Is that people don't take time to eat, and cat
in the wrong way. Many . mar thinks he Is
dying with consumption q heart disease, or
Bright's disease, or something like that. when
as a matter Of fact nothing ais him except IN
attack Of lunch house"
.Lunch housed"
SYes, SIR, lunch house Lunch houses make
more imaginary diseases than all other causes
together. Thousands Of men think they have
malaria in their system and rush away to the
mountains or take . sen voyage, and fl their
bodies full Of quinine il they a do any
thing else, when all that ais them Il the
lunch house Lunch houses cause moro OF
what Il called malaria in New York than all
the bad sewage, bad - that h. 1don't BE-
lieve there il any more malaria around now
than there was thirty years ago. when there
wasn't an ~intelligently constructed sewer In
the United StatesL II peopls would only have
as much sense about eating - they had then
there wouldn't b any complaint about ma
laris or dyspepsia either.
II show you what l mean, 60 into any Of
the big lunch houses down tow about noon,
and what do you SCOT There b long q
ter ON Zach side Of the room, and in front OF
each counter, perched nstools In uncomfort-
able, stoop shouldered positions, crowded In
together like herrings IN . boz, b q long hne
Of men, They eat-no, gorge b . better word
-as fast as they can
GAnd what is It that they throw into their
stomachsa Pork and beans, clans, oyster
pies. beef . Ia mode, fried potatoes, fried
ham and eggs, fried bash, fried cakes-grease,
spice, pepper and indigestible meat On that
they pile hot mince pic With crust like solo
leather and pour over the whole mass . cup Of
scalding coffee strong enough to raise the
dead. Then they just stop long enough to
light . cigar, which will paraly1o the action
of the stomach on all this stuff, and bolt back
to business with q loud under their shirt
fronts like lead. The healthiest man In the
world couldn't stand hat sortof q strain very
long, il It were combined. q Il always Is In q
big city like New York, with confinement In
q close room, and very likely . STOPPING pod-
ton over q desk"
THAT'S all true enough, but where does the
malaria como inf'
"Now, just wait . minute; I'm coming to
that presently. The liver q the first organ In
the body that gives out under the terrific
strain. It gets tired and refuses to % iB
work. Pretty soon the man feels lasaitude
and q queer pain In his jointaL Then he has
headaches and fevers, and gets 30 he doesn't
care q rap whether he lives or dies He puts
out his tongue one day before q looking glass,
and it is apparently coated halt an inch
thick with yellow furse. That settles it. He
is perfectly sure he has got malaria Lake as
not he gets his plumber to 60 all over the
house and roll up . ruinous bill looking for
sewer gas. Very likely he wants to sell tho
place and move out to Ringwood, or live In q
balloon, while he keeps his head ringing for q
month at time with quinine. Then he BE-
gins to read up ON his symptoms In health
books, and pretty soon be Is certain that his
heart Is affected, or his liver Is being con-
sumed, or there arc indubitable evidences Of
paresis about him. The chances are. il he
isn't rescued and taken out Of the terrible in
fiuences Of that lunch house he will get to be
q h~ypochondriac and health crank Of the
| most intolerable sort, and will go around
| drinking hot water and reading lectures TO
his friends on the advantages Of salt packsand
| steaming foot baths and Liver pods. he win
get moro crazy notions about hours Of getting
! up and going to bed and such things than you
| can count in . week, and he viii lad his
| family Q life that viii make them think Of
| suicide with satisfaction About that time
the lunch house Is having its perfect work.
"The whole fashion OF midday eating in
| New York ought to be reformed II mel viii
| persist In making their business hours 30 long
that they have to interrupt them to eat, they
Il SQOUlO L8k0 ~ t60S6 VI uOOI W H. Lucy
should 20 to some quiet resort and sit down
at a table like Christians, with some friends,
with whom they can chat and tall. Then lei
them eat q very light lunch-a small chop,
say, with q piece Of dry bread or something Of
that sort, giving themselvo plenty Of time e
masticate and going away . trtae hungry. A
piece Of dry bread and an apple, or sweibach
and a bunch Of grapes b the best kind Of 9
lunch for dyspeptica Let them abture al
made dishes, grease. gravy, pie and spice, and
drink nothing but light wines or water. and
there won't be any malaria 30 speak OF In thi.
goes on much longer the next generation viii
not only be . race Of dyspepticstvefe thai
already-but . race Of thin chested, round
livered cranks
aOf course the lunch house keepers are moi
to blame. They have to offer what they car
sell. No doubt they would rather set fortt
food that people can digest II they had any
choice in the matter. It's the bad taste Of
their customers that makes the trouble
Boston Budget.
BLIND TOMS WONDERFUL GIFT.
Rolling on b Floor In IN Ecstasy 81
Pleasure-Phenomenal Musical Talent.
Since the recent action Of the courts il
taking Blind Tom from the custody Of
Mr.. Bethune, his former life long friend,
manager and protector, has brought him
20 prominently before the public In the
newspapers, . few facts concerning hif
childhood by one who knew him then
may not prove uninteresting. He wa
born near the city of Columbus, In Mus
cogee county, Ga, Of slave parents, the